Park Creek (Idaho)
1Heads up1 fire 44 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $12From, per site
- Sites
- 262 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Park Creek Campground is located 4 miles from Lowman, Idaho, off the beaten path at the confluence of Park and Clear Creeks. Visitors enjoy fishing, hunting and exploring local trails. Keep reading
Recreation
Park Creek and Clear Creek both offer good trout fishing. Various hiking, biking, horseback and off-road vehicle riding trails are in the vicinity.
Facilities
The campground contains two group sites available by advanced reservations, each can accommodate up to 100 people per group site. The Rainbow Group Site are sites 1-12, and the Trout Group Site are sites 13-24. Picnic tables, campfire rings and grills are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. Roads and parking spurs are dirt. When not reserved as a group site, the sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. If both Rainbow and Trout Group Sites are reserved there will be no first-come, first-served sites available. Prior to arrival, please check the campground status on the reservation board on the 582 road located 300 feet north of the 21 junction to see if there are any pending reservations.
Natural Features
Towering Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir trees forest the campground, offering plentiful shade. Summer wildflowers dot the landscape. A variety of wildlife lives in the area, including black bears, deer and elk. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (208) 259-3361.
Nearby Attractions
Beautiful Bear Valley is up the road from Park Creek, offering scenic views, wildlife watching and numerous trail opportunities for hiking, biking, horseback and off-road vehicle riding. Several natural hot springs pools can be found along the Banks-Lowman Highway, also known as the Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway, and Highway 21, the Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway. Both byways also offer pretty scenery, wildlife viewing, historical information kiosks and trail opportunities. Whitewater rafting and kayaking are popular activities on the South Fork and Main Payette Rivers; several companies in the area offer guided half and full-day trips.
What the agency tells you
Idaho OHV Safety Message
This is bear country; be aware and keep a clean camp
Site is reservable as a group unit only; individual sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis when there is no group reservation
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Please contact the Lowman Ranger District at 208-259-3361 for off-season camping information
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Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 195 ft
- Accessible sites
- 24
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…rings and grills are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. Roads and…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. Roads and parking spurs are…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Hunting
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 314th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 2 of the 26 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $12 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 sites · the site map
All 26 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 2 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| PARK | Rainbow001 | type not stated | 24 ft | yes | 154 ft | |
| PARK | Rainbow002 | type not stated | 16 ft | yes | 232 ft | |
| PARK | Rainbow003 | type not stated | 24 ft | yes | 248 ft | |
| PARK | Rainbow004 | type not stated | 18 ft | yes | 225 ftPark Creek | |
| PARK | Rainbow005 | type not stated | 18 ft | yes | 284 ftPark Creek | |
| PARK | Rainbow006 | type not stated | 53 ft | yes | 95 ftPark Creek | |
| PARK | Rainbow007 | type not stated | 50 ft | yes | 34 ftPark Creek | |
| PARK | Rainbow008 | type not stated | 195 ft | yes | 244 ftPark Creek | |
| PARK | Rainbow009 | type not stated | 190 ft | yes | 329 ftPark Creek | |
| PARK | Rainbow010 | type not stated | 190 ft | yes | 327 ftPark Creek | |
| PARK | Rainbow011 | type not stated | 195 ft | yes | 392 ftPark Creek | |
| PARK | Rainbow012 | type not stated | 55 ft | yes | 589 ft | |
| PARK | RB1 | group standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $100 | ||
| PARK | TR2 | group standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $100 | ||
| PARK | Trout013 | type not stated | 32 ft | yes | 442 ft | |
| PARK | Trout014 | type not stated | 24 ft | yes | 501 ft | |
| PARK | Trout015 | type not stated | 18 ft | yes | 386 ft | |
| PARK | Trout016 | type not stated | 18 ft | yes | 345 ftAsh Creek | |
| PARK | Trout017 | type not stated | 18 ft | yes | 291 ftAsh Creek | |
| PARK | Trout018 | type not stated | 18 ft | yes | 246 ft | |
| PARK | Trout019 | type not stated | 18 ft | yes | 204 ft | |
| PARK | Trout020 | type not stated | 24 ft | yes | 160 ft | |
| PARK | Trout021 | type not stated | 44 ft | yes | 203 ft | |
| PARK | Trout022 | type not stated | 26 ft | yes | 140 ft | |
| PARK | Trout023 | type not stated | 22 ft | yes | 134 ft | |
| PARK | Trout024 | type not stated | 28 ft | yes | 202 ft |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Park Creek Campground and Group sitesBoise National Forest · 0.1 mi
Mountain ViewBoise National Forest · 2.9 mi
KirkhamBoise National Forest · 3.7 miDeadwood CampgroundBoise National Forest · 4.6 mi
HelendeBoise National Forest · 5.5 mi
Deadwood Lookout Rec CabinBoise National Forest · 6.1 miFrom Boise, Idaho, take Highway 55 to Banks. Turn east and travel Forest Highway 24/Banks-Lowman Highway to Lowman. Turn left onto Highway 21 and immediately turn left onto Forest Road 582/Clear Creek Road. Proceed 3.6 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lowman, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 14°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Park Creek (Idaho) is in Idaho’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Russ Fulcher (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →